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...quit his Dodge job and he and Johnny Andrews naturally began drifting apart. When most of the independent automobile unions merged with United Automobile Workers last year, he led his A. I. W. A. locals into the fold, became U. A. W.'s chief organizer in the Detroit area. As such, he was in the front trenches when the great General Motors strike (see p. 14) began last December...
...serum; was mobilizing a corps of sanitary engineers to face new problems as the flood recedes. Revenue agents were ordered to give up "still" chasing and use their cars to transport refugees. Even the Narcotics Bureau was busy shipping supplies of codeine and other needed drugs to the flood area. WPA had thousands of men at work on the levees, and this week Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins starts on a tour to plan rehabilitation behind the flood. CCC had more thousands working at flood relief but the biggest job, the biggest responsibility and the biggest headache belonged...
Chief of Staff Malin Craig in Washington announced that he was ready if necessary to evacuate the entire Mississippi flood plain from Cairo to New Orleans. Major General Herbert J. Brees, commanding the Eighth Corps Area on the west bank of the Mississippi, was making preparations to evacuate eastern Arkansas and his troopers were busy setting up concentration camps. In the Fourth Corps Area, east of the Mississippi, Major General George Van Horn Moseley had an even bigger responsibility for on his bank are most of the big river cities, the once great steamboat towns: Memphis, Vicksburg, Natchez, New Orleans...
...Jewish civil libertarian, Arthur Garfield Hays, operates two private hospitals in Manhattan. He also is an otolaryngologist of note and gets many cases referred to him from other physicians. "It is possible that as many as 60% to 70% of the 14,000 doctors in the metropolitan area are engaged in this pernicious practice of splitting fees. Best evidence we have of this is the vote taken last month by the Kings County Medical Society, when 579 out of 770 doctors voted against establishing a law to stop the practice...
...Lake Pewaukee by one Roger Joys of Milwaukee the first skeeter was merely a ten-foot triangular wooden frame supported on three runners, carrying a small sail on a 15-ft. mast. Today it is a sporty, front -steering ice-racing machine with 75-ft. sail area, manageable by a girl, thrilling enough for a man, inexpensive (150-$250). light enough (125 Ib.) to be disassembled and hauled about by auto. While not so fast as such legendary performances as Kittie's 1¼ miles at 107 m.p.h. at Red Bank in 1885 or Haze's reputed...